[ltp] keyboard screwed up after coming back from sleep

[Eben King]

On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, Marc MERLIN wrote:

> So, sometimes, just sometimes, my keyboard mapping is all broken when I come
> back from sleep (like space generating multiple characters and so forth)
> 
> I can go back to text mode by ssh'ing in and chvt 1
> d gives HH
> g gives ..
> enter doesn't work
> space is ``
> tab is ==
> etc...
> 
> 1) can I avoid that?
> 2) how can I restore the keyboard to normal operation (at least through
>    remote ssh)?

If you can find a way to type "<some repeatable string><enter>", how about 
aliasing that to "reset"?  Beforehand, that is, since you obviously can't do 
it at the time.

How about switching to ttyn (1<=n<=6) then back to X?

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